Helen Gillies

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• _UID: 7A38F33C61FF416283BFA289A3ECDA96501F

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 187302061
• _UID: 68C8C7B63295451E9E7F5A073398C42B0FC6
• Immigration-Witness: 1821, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Unassisted settler; David of London
• Land & Property: 1832, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Lanark, Concession 3 Lot 9E - his own land allotment on the Clyde River
• Land & Property: Abt 1840, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Lanark, Concession 3 Lot 9W
• Land & Property: 1862, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Purchased 300 square miles of limits on the Mississippi River from the Gilmour Company
• Land & Property: 1869, Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Purchased the Gilmour mills
• Land & Property: 1871, Herron's Mills, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; John Gillies sold his original mill, and home, in Lanark Township to John and
• Land & Property: 1873, Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; sold his share in the Gillies-McLaren holdings on the Mississippi River and at Carleton Place to his partner Peter McLaren

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Christened:
GILLIES
JOHN
JAMES GILLIES/HELEN STARK FR1365 (FR1365)
M
27/10/1811
483
60 / 152
KILSYTH

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187302061

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness


Land & Property:
After purchasing this property which adjoined his land grant, he built a sawmill.

Land & Property:
a territory covering the greater part of six townships; Palmerston, Barrie, Angelsea, Clarendon, Olden and Oso. These Mississippi limits became their major source of supply, but they were far up the river, around and beyond Mazinaw Lake, and the Mississippi watershed could be a very difficult place to drive logs. In many places, the river presented sharp turns, narrow channels, long shallow rapids and
substantial water falls, while its tributary creeks, and the river itself, were frequently too shallow to float timber even during the freshet. Under the direction of McLaren, the Gillies-McLaren Company began building improvements at the most problematic locations; dredged channels, dams to control water levels, timber slides around rapids and falls, sluiceways and booms to corral the logs after they had passed through.
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Land & Property:
Market conditions were changing. Demand for sawn lumber was proving more reliable than that for square timber, so Gillies-McLaren purchased the Gilmour mills at Carleton Place in 1869, completely rebuilding and then expanding them.

Land & Property:
Sod for $330,000, about $6,270,000 in modern value

Gillies reinvested the proceeds with his sons, James, William, John Jr. and
David, in timber limits along the Madawaska River and mills at Braeside. Peter McLaren continued to harvest the Mississippi River limits, expand improvements for driving logs, and produce lumber at the Carleton Place mill.

John married Mary Cullen Bain about 1839. Mary was born about 1818; died about 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 9B62E721513B4243A1C7AEABEC87A86E60E8

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 191210283
• _UID: 2522FFADC815477788383F964DA974952221
• Location: 1821, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Lanark twp, Concession 5 Lot 10
• Immigration: 1821, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Unassisted settler; David of London

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Christened:
GILLIES
JAMES
GEORGE GILLIES/JANET NESBETH FR1076 AND FR1103 (FR1103)
M
28/03/1766
483
40 / 247
KILSYTH

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191210283

James married Helen Stark on 10 Jan 1799 in Kilsyth Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Helen (daughter of John Stark and Elizabeth Livingston) was born on 1 Feb 1779 in Kilsyth Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland; died on 27 Nov 1856 in Middleville, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Middleville Pioneer Cemetery, Middleville, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 191210284
• Name: Ellen Gillies
• Name: Nelly Stark
• _UID: B1B144A354A242A8B62FEEEF4F3AFDB627A2
• Immigration-Witness: 1821, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Unassisted settler; David of London

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FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191210284

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness

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• _UID: 2123445D7E7E485282406807C78879FE7299

George married Janet Nisbeth on 2 Jul 1762 in Scotland. Janet was born in 1743 in Kilsyth Parish, Stirlingshire, Scotland; died on 23 Feb 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: D9975AEB197F480D96A46EB8194E47CD7D2B

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• _UID: 895D3396F047413980F8BA773D7F834D957E

John married Elizabeth Livingston. Elizabeth was born in 1747; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: BC211B1A42384192BF07DB3454AC4AF16FCF